Pyotr Stolypin

wikipedia - 18 Sep 2016Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Russian: Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин; IPA: [pʲɵtr ɐˈrkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ stɐˈlɨpʲɪn]; 14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1862 – 18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1911), chairman of the Council of Ministers, served as Prime Minister, and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire from 1906 to 1911. His tenure was marked by efforts to counter revolutionary groups and by the implementation of noteworthy agrarian reforms. Stolypin was a monarchist and hoped to stren

Washington Post - 07 Mar 2018
In his chilling account of the Romanov dynasty, the British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore quoted Pyotr Stolypin, who was interior minister for Nicholas II, the last of the czars: “In Russia, nothing is more dangerous than the appearance of weakness ...

Manhattan Mercury - 07 Mar 2018
In his chilling account of the Romanov dynasty, the British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore quoted Pyotr Stolypin, who was interior minister for Nicholas II, the last of the czars: “In Russia, nothing is more dangerous than the appearance of weakness ...

Asharq Al-awsat English - 11 Mar 2018
In his chilling account of the Romanov dynasty, the British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore quoted Pyotr Stolypin, who was interior minister for Nicholas II, the last of the czars: “In Russia, nothing is more dangerous than the appearance of weakness ...

The Times of Israel - 28 Oct 2017
But as Communism took root, it ignited a civil war that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews during the bloodiest pogroms the world would see until the Holocaust. To commemorate the centennial of the revolution, academic conferences ...

Washington Post - 02 Oct 2017
MOSCOW — If the Kremlin had a court sculptor, Salavat Scherbakov would be it. The 62-year-old artist has spent the past decade erecting homages to various heroes of Russia's political elite, including a 78-foot statue to Prince Vladimir of Kiev in the ...

The Economist - 28 Sep 2017
OF THE estimated 70m deaths due to famines in the 20th century, at least 40m occurred under communist regimes in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea and Cambodia. The precise number of deaths remains uncertain, as do the causes, owing to the ...

Spectator.co.uk - 05 Jan 2017
The conservative prerevolutionary prime minister Pyotr Stolypin — famous for hanging revolutionaries from 'Stolypin neckties' — is probably the closest thing to an official hero of the period. Stolypin was elected 'history's greatest Russian' in a TV ...

Foreign Affairs - 15 Aug 2017
They examine 14 such moments, stretching from the assassination of Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin in September 1911 to the radical surge in the Bolshevik regime's ruthlessness in 1922. Dominic Lieven tackles the counterfactual likelihood that ...

New York Times - 19 Sep 2017
Mr. Scherbakov has also designed statues of Czar Alexander I and Pyotr Stolypin, prime minister under Czar Nicholas II, in other prestigious Moscow locations. A fact sheet distributed at the ceremony by the Military-Historical Society describes General ...

A Magazine of American Culture - 11 Dec 2017
The Germans wanted to use the Austro-Serbian clash as the cause for a preventive war against Russia. They were greatly concerned that Russia, after the war with Japan and the 1905 revolution, embarked on the path of intense modernization under ...

STRATFOR - 05 Jul 2017
Prime Minister (and Interior Minister) Pyotr Stolypin saw the writing on the wall and urged the czar to overhaul Russia's political system to create an independent working class who would still be loyal to the crown. Stolypin's proposed reforms might ...

The Atlantic - 28 Nov 2012
Vladimir Putin can't seem to decide which of his two heroes he wants to be. The tough guy KGB veteran in him clearly wants to follow the example of the late hard-line Soviet leader Yury Andropov. But another side of Putin yearns to emulate the ...

Business Insider - 14 Jul 2011
Putin Kremlin.ru and Wikimedia Commons Vladimir Putin has told Russian cabinet ministers that they have to donate to help him build a statue of his idol, Pyotr Stolypin, reports The Guardian. "Members of the cabinet, and not only members of the cabinet ...

The Sydney Morning Herald - 07 Apr 2017
In just over a century, the course of Russian history has seen a turbulent progression from Rasputin to Putin. One is reminded of Milan Kundera's observation that "behind the seductive sound of progress there is the lascivious voice of death". There ...

BBC News - 31 Dec 2016
Grigory Rasputin, a mystic peasant who captivated the Russian imperial court, met his death at the hands of aristocratic enemies 100 years ago. Artem Krechetnikov of BBC Russian examines the grisly murder of Rasputin and finds that some details are ...

The Independent - 02 Mar 2017
The central one is this: in other circumstances (without, say, the exigencies of the First World War or the 1911 assassination of reformist Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin) would Russia have been able to modernise and democratise at the same time? Could ...

The Moscow Times - 27 Aug 2012
ST. PETERSBURG — As Russia marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Stolypin, the pre-revolutionary interior minister and chairman of the imperial Council of Ministers, political analysts are scrutinizing his legacy and suggesting that ...